Gary Lockett
Software Architecture Consultant Founder at Codeva
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Lockett is a founder and seasoned software leader with over a decade of hands-on engineering and technical-director experience building scalable, secure web platforms that deliver measurable ROI. He’s delivered high-impact architecture and performance improvements—cutting response times by over 90% for major retailers and designing headless Next.js/WordPress systems for global initiatives—while keeping tight deadlines and costs in check. As Technical Director he drove process automation that reduced project completion times by two-thirds and has led teams of 10+ through strategic roadmapping and P&L-informed decisions. A member of the Laminas Technical Steering Committee, he brings deep PHP and modern JS expertise alongside cloud-native tooling (AWS CDK, Docker, Kubernetes) and pragmatic microservices migrations. He mentors engineers and helps organizations navigate build-vs-buy trade-offs, combining founder-level business acumen with runway-tested engineering judgment.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Astrophysics, BSc, Astrophysics at The University of ManchesterAltrincham Boys Grammar School
Github Skills (200)
dynamic-forms10
decimals10
multiselect10
testing10
ng10
relational10
collapse10
accordion10
pickerview10
api10
progress-bar10
mapper10
skeleton10
stepper10
ng-bootstrap10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
internalsystemerror/php-metapackage-development
Dec 2016 - Nov 2021
Development metapackage for PHP used by Internalsystemerror Limited
Contributions:6 PRs, 75 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 11 months
phpmetapackage
internalsystemerror/ise-module-admin
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 100 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
administrationlaravelphp
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